"Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a witer. It is a certain truth. When your pencil is dull, sharpen it. And when your pencil is sharp, use it until it is dull again."

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Source : "Madness, Rack, and Honey". Book by Mary Ruefle, therumpus.net. August 7, 2012.

Mary Ruefle

#Believe Quotes #Giving Quotes #Advice Quotes

“Darling, if I think of all I miss now, I will go crazy. I should not think of that. I only want to think of all that I still have, and then I am rich. Your spirit is always around me, in your diary, our letters, all the things you got for our household. How proud we were of that! And the nearly six years! O God, I thank you for those years. If I never had met you, I would now not have all the sorrow; but I would have missed these riches -- and do these years not abundantly balance the lonely years I face without you?”
“It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.”

Source : "Ladies' Home Journal" Magazine, May 1958.
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
“I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.”
“Schizophrenia beats dining alone.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.”
“You lose anyone, thereâ€™s no replacing them. What you need to get is thatâ€™s precious, you get to keep that, you donâ€™t want to replace it. That doesnâ€™t mean you canâ€™t find something else just as good.”
“One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.”

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